Museum · Downtown
The Newark Museum of Art
49 Washington Street, Newark 07102
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New Jersey's largest museum sits in downtown Newark and ranges from American art and Asian, African and ancient Mediterranean collections to a planetarium and the historic Ballantine House. Alongside rotating exhibitions it runs curator talks, family art days, live music evenings and community days.
Permanent exhibitions
- Seeing America: 18th & 19th Century and 20th & 21st Century (American art, North Wing)
- Seeing America: Native Artists of North America
- Arts of Global Asia, including a Tibetan Buddhist altar
- Arts of Global Africa
- Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean
- Contemporary Craft
- Jewelry: from Pearls to Platinum to Plastic
- The Ballantine House (Victorian mansion with period rooms)
- Chronicles in Cloth: Siddi Quilting
- Outdoor installations by Shahzia Sikander, Sanford Biggers and Phillip K. Smith III
